Change alt text for box arrow

[mugitty]

I would like to be able to show different alt text for the right arrow that appears in some of the boxes, depending on which box it is.

 

I assume that it can be accomplished by creating some if statements in the language file where the original text for that arrow appears as

define('ICON_ARROW_RIGHT', 'more...');

but am unsure of how to write it.

 

Any help is appreciated.

[mugitty]

I tried something like this in the english language file but no luck in changing the alt text...

if (DIR_WS_BOXES == specials.php) {
 define('ICON_ARROW_RIGHT', 'View all Specials');
} else {
 define('ICON_ARROW_RIGHT', 'more...');
}

Any suggestions???

[Guest]

Try this for your shopping_cart.php

 

<?php
/*
 $Id: shopping_cart.php,v 1.18 2003/02/10 22:31:06 hpdl Exp $

 osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
 http://www.oscommerce.com

 Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce

 Released under the GNU General Public License
*/
?>
<!-- shopping_cart //-->
         <tr>
           <td>
<?php

 class infoBoxCartHeading extends tableBox {
   function infoBoxCartHeading($contents, $left_corner = true, $right_corner = true, $right_arrow = false) {
     $this->table_cellpadding = '0';

     if ($left_corner == true) {
       $left_corner = tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'infobox/corner_left.gif');
     } else {
       $left_corner = tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'infobox/corner_right_left.gif');
     }
     if ($right_arrow == true) {
       $right_arrow = '<a href="' . $right_arrow . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'infobox/arrow_right.gif', 'Your favourite shoping cart') . '</a>';
     } else {
       $right_arrow = '';
     }
     if ($right_corner == true) {
       $right_corner = $right_arrow . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'infobox/corner_right.gif');
     } else {
       $right_corner = $right_arrow . tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '11', '14');
     }

     $info_box_contents = array();
     $info_box_contents[] = array(array('params' => 'height="14" class="infoBoxHeading"',
                                        'text' => $left_corner),
                                  array('params' => 'width="100%" height="14" class="infoBoxHeading"',
                                        'text' => $contents[0]['text']),
                                  array('params' => 'height="14" class="infoBoxHeading" nowrap',
                                        'text' => $right_corner));

     $this->tableBox($info_box_contents, true);
   }
 }

 $info_box_contents = array();
 $info_box_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_HEADING_SHOPPING_CART);

 new infoBoxCartHeading($info_box_contents, false, true, tep_href_link(FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART));

 $cart_contents_string = '';
 if ($cart->count_contents() > 0) {
   $cart_contents_string = '<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">';
   $products = $cart->get_products();
   for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($products); $i<$n; $i++) {
     $cart_contents_string .= '<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="infoBoxContents">';

     if ((tep_session_is_registered('new_products_id_in_cart')) && ($new_products_id_in_cart == $products[$i]['id'])) {
       $cart_contents_string .= '<span class="newItemInCart">';
     } else {
       $cart_contents_string .= '<span class="infoBoxContents">';
     }

     $cart_contents_string .= $products[$i]['quantity'] . ' x </span></td><td valign="top" class="infoBoxContents"><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $products[$i]['id']) . '">';

     if ((tep_session_is_registered('new_products_id_in_cart')) && ($new_products_id_in_cart == $products[$i]['id'])) {
       $cart_contents_string .= '<span class="newItemInCart">';
     } else {
       $cart_contents_string .= '<span class="infoBoxContents">';
     }

     $cart_contents_string .= $products[$i]['name'] . '</span></a></td></tr>';

     if ((tep_session_is_registered('new_products_id_in_cart')) && ($new_products_id_in_cart == $products[$i]['id'])) {
       tep_session_unregister('new_products_id_in_cart');
     }
   }
   $cart_contents_string .= '</table>';
 } else {
   $cart_contents_string .= BOX_SHOPPING_CART_EMPTY;
 }

 $info_box_contents = array();
 $info_box_contents[] = array('text' => $cart_contents_string);

 if ($cart->count_contents() > 0) {
   $info_box_contents[] = array('text' => tep_draw_separator());
   $info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'right',
                                'text' => $currencies->format($cart->show_total()));
 }

 new infoBox($info_box_contents);
?>
           </td>
         </tr>
<!-- shopping_cart_eof //-->

Do the same thing with other boxes. :thumbsup:

[mugitty]

Ray;

 

Thanks for the suggestion. It works... with limitations.

 

I have created a second class for some of the infoBoxes and when I apply your suggestion in the individual box files, I lose the stylesheet for the second box type. I suspect this is because the stylesheet is called before the new class is declared. I can get around this by putting an additional class into classes/boxes for each different text that I want to appear with the arrow, but this adds an awful lot of code.

 

I was hoping that there might be a way to change the text with some brief "if" statements somewhere.